Georges d’Esparbès, René Giffey ; Jules Chancel, R. de La Nézière ; Louis Bertrand, Albert Uriet - L’Épopée française ; Tiarko, le chevrier de Napoléon ; Histoire de Napoléon - 1911-1930

Lot of three illustrated works devoted to the Napoleonic epic and the French military.

1. Georges d’Esparbès, The French Epic. Paris, Librairie Ch. Delagrave, [1911], 2nd edition. Drawings and watercolors by René Giffey: numerous illustrations in the text and color plates hors-texte with serpentine borders.
Publisher’s hardcover in gray percaline with gold, orange and black decoration (grenadier with flag), peacock blind-stamped on the rear board.
Condition: headcaps and corners rubbed, foxing mainly on the serpentine borders and at the margins. Color plates in good condition.

2. Jules Chancel, Tiarko, the Goatherd of Napoleon. Paris, Librairie Ch. Delagrave, s.d. Illustrations by R. de La Nézière: title vignette, black illustrations in the text and hors-texte.
Publisher’s green percaline binding, front board illustrated in colors and gold: Napoleon and the King of Rome in his carriage drawn by goats.
Condition: spine worn, headcaps and corners rubbed, discoloration along the edge of the first board, inner joint cracked at the first endpaper, small loss of paper at the crease of the title-page. Paper uniformly yellowed, some foxing.

Louis Bertrand (of the Académie française), Histoire de Napoléon. Tours, Maison Alfred Mame et Fils, s.d. [circa 1930]. Images by Albert Uriet in color on full page.
Colored illustrated binding, green cloth spine.
Condition: split at the first board, two small nicks on the second board, corners worn, rubbing. Interior clean.